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...Shipbuilder Daniel K. Ludwig, owner of the world's second largest private fleet. Last week Ludwig's National Bulk Carriers, Inc., announced its future plans for two monstrous 103,000-ton oil and ore carriers-the world's biggest-to be built in its Kure, Japan shipyards...
This week Ludwig's 84,730-ton Universe Leader will go down the ways at Kure, Japan, where Ludwig has turned out more than half a million tons of shipping since he leased the former Imperial Navy Yard in 1951. Six feet wider than the Queen Elizabeth, the Universe Leader will be able to haul more than enough gasoline in one trip to fill the tanks of every General Motors car produced in the first six months...
...Postponed action on Hawaiian statehood after the Interior Committee decided that its members should go to Hawaii for hearings. Some committee members were troubled by the far-flung boundaries (from Palmyra to the Kure Islands) set in the House bill, others were enticed by thoughts of Hawaii in the spring...
...remains in a rubber-lined, zippered pouch. An aircraft expert combed the wreck, snipped off bits of metal bearing serial numbers. Then the party scrambled back to its own lines. By last week, the plane had been identified as a light L19 spotter, and in the G.R.S. laboratory at Kure, Japan, the pilot's skeleton had been assembled, his height determined, dental chart plotted. If the data obtained from this work checks with a name listed on a unit roster, another U.S. fighting man's name will be transferred from "missing in action" to "killed in action...
Clues & Proof. Combing old battlefields from the Pusan beachhead to the present battlefront are hundreds of officers, soldiers and civilians with special skills-fingerprint experts from the FBI, men with detective experience, trained undertakers, X-ray technicians, doctors, dentists, chemists, anthropologists, clerks. At Kure, the lab staff looks for clues in laundry and dry-cleaning marks, scars, teeth, old bone fractures, even tattoos...